In an ideal world, we'd all be developing for the latest Flash 7 player subversion and every one of our users would have already updated their systems with the latest plugin. As things stand, real-world projects still publish for the Flash 6 Player (even Flash 5 sometimes) and have to support users who may have [...]

Thanks, Aral. It's my pleasure to help the RIA developer community. Yes, I came across two issues. One was with the migration from MM Flash Remoting to OpenAMF. With MM Flash Remoting, some arrays of numbers were passed as Doubles, where with OpenAMF they were Integers. The second issue had to [...]

I'm very happy to introduce our newest author on FlashAnt, Lindsay Smith. Lindsay is the lead java programmer at Telrock Communications and we have been working together with him for a little while now on Release 2 of Opal. Our collaboration began back in November of last year when we got together to play the [...]